Horse-collar



(No Model.)

- P. DEGNAN & M. MEYER.

HORSE UOLLAR. v No. 308,881. 1 Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK DEGNAN AED MICHAEL MEYER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,881, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed June 21,1884. (X0 model.)

To all whom it may con'cern:

Be it known that we, PATRICK DEGNAN and ll/IICHAEL MEYER, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improved Horse-Gollar, of which the following is a specification.

Our essential objects are to make the throat or under portion of horse-collars to be elastic, yielding, and self-adapting to the movements of the animal, especially avoiding all choking or injurious strain upon the throat or chest of the animal, and otherwise render the collar (by its cushion and throat parts) better adapted to fit, accommodate, and be more comforting to the animal. W'c attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the acconr panying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved horse-collar, with parts broken away to better show the construction inside of the "throat portion. Fig. 2 is abottoni plan of the collar. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on line 3 3.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

A A are the side pads or shoulder-cosh ions of the collar. These cushions do not extend completely round the under or throat portion of the collar, but only from the neck a to the throat portions, marked 1) Z). (See Figs. 1, 2.) The neck-roll A. forms part of the collar, in manner usual, as shown.

From the points b b the under, or what we term the throat, portion B we have improved as follows: We make the continuity from the lowest extremity of the one cushion, I), to the like point of the opposite cushion, at b, to consist of a tubularleather throat, B, (see figures;) secondly, we insert in this throat B a solid cylindrical shaped piece of rub ber or its equivalent, so that it is the combination of this rubber I)", (as a stuffing or filling,) together with the tubular leather throat B, that constitutes the elastic or yielding throat (See Fig.

having the leather tubular throat B, provided with the rubber inside properly fastened at its ends; finally. all is stuffedin manner ordinary, the strawreaching completely to the ends where the rubber is fastened. (See Figs. 1, 2.)

Our invention adapts the under or throat portion, B, of the collar to better accommodate the movements of the animal. It also adapts 'the collar to better fit and yield to the chest of the animal and otherwise overcomes the dis advantages arising from a collar having a rigid throat portion.

\Ve are aware that horsecollars have been made with a rim or neck-roll provided with a piece of indie-rubber, or of rubber and straw, but such we do not claim.

What we claim is- 1. In a horse-collar, the pads or cushions thereof, having their lower ends connected together by a tubular leather throat portion, B, containing the rubber filling b substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a horse-collar, the combination of the pads or cushions having their lower ends connected together by a tubular .leather throat, B, the rubber filling I) inside of same, and the neck-roll A", all constructed to operate substantial] y as and for the purposes set forth. PATRICK DEGNAN. MICHAEL MEYER.

Vitnesses:

WILLIAM W. HERTHEL, JOHN W. HERTHEL. 

